Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	The "one step" process... what visa to go for	My husband and I are in the US. We trying to get him a new marriage based visa because his old agro visa is out of date. He came to the US on a temporary agrocultural worker visa but left his job after not being paid and being underfed (the job he had was 24/7 and his boss was required to provide him with groceries as the nature of the job kept him from doing so)... In either case we contacted a low cost lawyer who gave us the good news and the bad. As he had come to the US legally we were eligiable for a one step application... but as they were government funded they couldn't do one step applications. So we have set ourselves up with a real lawyer and I want as much finished as I can do myself to keep the lawyer fees from breaking our budget and to expidite the process as well. All this is dandy but what visa do we file for him? Another question I have is that his son still lives in Peru with his mother. Although we aren't sure when his son will be coming to the US, we want to be able to bring his son back with us when he brings me to Peru to meet his family. Is it advantageous to file for his son at the same time as we are doing his paperwork? And if this is the case would it be best to file for my husband the slower way by filing first the I130 then for the change of status along with his son or can we file one one way and the other another way? Carissa	Carissa	Female	Peru	2007-06-01 20:34:00